CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexxus Lighting, Inc. (NASDAQ:NEXS) today announced that its Lumificient Corporation business unit has shipped over 1400 meters of its Hyperion R-Lite LED lighting system to help light the Dubai Metro / JT Metro project in the United Arab Emirates. The Dubai Metro will be the longest fully automated rail system in the world and will have a total of 43 miles (70 kilometres) of line with 47 stations when completed. The massive $4.2 billion civil engineering project is being constructed by JT Metro JV (Japan Turkey Metro Joint Venture), which is a joint venture of the Obayashi Corporation and Kajima Corporations of Japan and Yapi Merkezi Turkey. Gargash Lighting Systems LLC, Nexxus Lighting’s distributor for the middle east, supplied the product for the project, which is still under construction. The first line is scheduled to begin full operations in September 2009.
